From owner-freebsd-questions Mon May 13 1:16:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oxe.cs.umu.se (oxe.cs.umu.se [130.239.40.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D19037B404 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 01:16:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gren.cs.umu.se (rfc1413 says tdv94ped@gren.cs.umu.se [130.239.40.187]) by oxe.cs.umu.se (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA19325 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 10:16:33 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 10:16:32 +0200 (MEST) From: Paul Everlund To: Subject: inetd - hosts.allow warnings Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi all! Did get this message in my log: > May 12 21:07:12 fw inetd[30064]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 23: host name/name mismatch: hosting-90.120.rev.fr.colt.net != everlund.homeip.net What do trigger this message? Looking only at the equivalence; hosting-90.120.rev.fr.colt.net != everlund.homeip.net, that the "visiting" host is different than my domain, I would get this message from every "visiting" computer, but I do not. Do the message imply a security threat, or nothing bad has really happened, or bad things can happen out of this? Depending of what triggers it, can I change anything in hosts.allow to stop those hosts that fire up these warnings? Thanks in advance for all the help I can get on this matter! Best regards, Paul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message